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"Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge."
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"The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices."
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"And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one."
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"But virtue, as it never will be moved,Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven,So lust, though to a radiant angel linked,Will sate itself in a celestial bedAnd prey on garbage."
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"For every seed of godliness, kindness and justice sowed, there will be surely be a harvest of goodness, significance and greatness."
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"Live life with great humility."
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"Godliness must be presented with its profit and incentives, not only for the good of the nation and society, but of eternal value."
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"When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous."
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"When virtue has slept she will get up more refreshed."
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"If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked almost any of the great Christians of old he would have replied, Love - You see what has happened? A negative term has been substituted for a positive, and this is of more than philological importance. The negative ideal of Unselfishness carries with it the suggestion not primarily of securing good things for others, but of going without them ourselves, as if our abstinence and not their happiness was the important point."
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"Oh, my friends, that your self be in your deed as the mother is in her child - let that be your word concerning virtue!"
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"The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic."
Difference
"The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth."
Humor
"Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!"
Night
"Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man."
Artist
"The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep."
Time
"My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language."
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"But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?"
Fear
"We all have faults, and mine is being wicked."
Being
"Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man."
Age
"The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road."
Knowledge
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